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After the 2016 US election, Jafari became more vocal about his political views. Jafari has since expressed support of views consistent with those of white nationalists and the alt-right in a debate with Twitch.tv streamer Destiny. For obvious reasons, those living in the reality-based community kinda didn't take too well to all that. This includes Playtonic Games, the developers known for being part of Rare's team that developed the Banjo-Kazooie games (JonTron is known for his videos related to Banjo-Kazooie, particularly his Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Boltsvideo. Due to the controversy, Playtonic Games pulled JonTron's voice effects from Yooka-Laylee.[3]

Despite his vocal opinions outside the show, Jafari in the show surprisingly handles sensitive topics maturely while still being funny.[note 1] In one notable video, "Disney Bootlegs", Jafari negatively reacts to a swastika[4] and a blackface depiction[5] while still executing a humorous and entertaining comedy routine. He has used "Nazi" as an insult[6] and said that Adolf Hitler's death is the exception to the statement "the death of anyone is a sad occasion".[7] In stark contrast to how the issues are handled on the JonTron show, there is a problem with Jafari's real-life views — as expressed by himself outside the sketch comedy-type setting of the JonTron show.[note 2]

Destiny: A hundred and fifty years ago, Italians, Polish people, Irishmen, wouldn't have been considered even white people, let alone Americans.

Jafari: I don't know that that's true. That is just a myth. That's not true. They were considered white. I don't know where this thing that Italians and Irish weren't considered white. That's ridiculous. [Have] you seen the Irish? They're like the whitest people around, the hell, that's just a fucking myth. So [laughs] I'm gonna take that from you.

Destiny: I can't read the word, it's "white n-word", this is what Irishmen were called in the United States. [Destiny appears to send the Wikipedia article to JonTron.]

Jafari: [laughs] I need more proof than a short Wikipedia article.

Destiny: What do you want? We're talking about an undisputed fact.

Jafari: They were called that, but they were still white. That's all I'm saying.

Destiny: Dude, they literally had signs in the United States that said, "Irish need not apply." These were less than humans. These people were treated horribly. They were not seen as Americans or even white people. They were called "reverse negroes".

Fact check: True. Jafari is correct that Irishmen were historically considered "white" by law and custom.[10] For instance, they were allowed to go to "whites-only" schools in the South and were allowed to marry a white Anglo-Saxon when interracial marriage was against the law.[10] It is still true that the Irish faced massive, systemic discrimination of another kind.

Jafari repeatedly followed (almost word-for-word) the logic of the "white genocide" conspiracy theory.

I don't think a pure society's possible, but in terms of a demographic majority, I don't know that a nation can exist without one. This truly, "multicultural, every single person is a different [laughs] thing or race or religion", I don't know if that's really sustainable long term.[11][12]

You can't make the argument that whites should be okay with them becoming a minority in the country their ancestors built if it doesn't apply to other countries.[13]

Fact check: False. Jafari's claim is flawed on multiple levels. Firstly, a white person today cannot claim to be the descendant of any white person in history. A significant number of white people who currently live in the US do not have ancestors who contributed to the formation of the US, and many of their ancestors still lived in Europe when the the US was formed. Secondly, Jafari incorrectly assumes that those who "built" the United States were exclusively white people, which falsely suggests that people of other races cannot claim to have ancestors who helped build the country. For example, his statement ignores the many important American structures built by enslaved black people.[14] Thirdly, people of mixed ancestry can have white ancestors, not just white people. Finally, Jafari contradicts his own point by being implicitly okay with the minority status of Native Americans in their native land.

What do you call a large number of people from one specific place, coming in, setting up their own ethnic enclaves and then waving their own flag inside of our nation? ... There are also large swathes of them who want to break parts of America off back into Mexico.[15]

Note: Jafari's comment about Mexicans wanting to break parts of America off back into Mexico is referring to the reconquista. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League have described the reconquista as a myth and a conspiracy theory.[16][17][18][19] Jafari has also said that the Southern Poverty Law Center are "the worst" and sarcastically described them as "the most unbiased institution of all time."[20]

Nobody would ask Japan if it was okay that Japan became a minority Japanese nation.[21] ... I think it is a model society.[22]

Destiny: Do you think that it's okay for a country to stifle its growth a little bit in order to maintain a homogenous cultural identity?
Jafari: Yeah, I think it's fine. Japan does it.[23]

Fact check: This is false, chiefly for two reasons. Firstly, Japanese liberals are evolving Japan's restrictive immigration and acculturation policies,[24] albeit quietly.[25] For one, in 2016 prime minister Shinzo Abe vowed to provide foreign workers with "the world’s fastest path to permanent residency in Japan".[26]Secondly, claims to Japanese 'cultural homogenity' are actually quite misleading.[27] Massively simplifed; both the current nature, and international success, of Japanese pop culture stand on two historical legs — forcible import of foreign culture (via US influence post-WW2)[28][29] followed by far-reaching export of remixed culture (ultimately via the Internet).[30][31] The result of this globalized 'two-way cultural communication' is that even xenophobic Japan falls short of any disciplined standard of 'homogeneity', cultural or otherwise.[32][33] A supposed rhetorical shift from 'cultural' to 'ethnic' homogeneity won't work either — and not simply because the very notion of 'ethnical purity' is inherently nonsensical — considering Japan has already accepted about 2,32 million immigrants, representing roughly 2% of Japanese citizens.[34] And immigration aside — just consider the 'heterogenity' already inherent to Japan.[35] Perhaps most crucial of all; Japan isn't exactly a brilliant example to hold up in support of any thesis that "keeping immigrants out saves nations".[36] In fact, as a consequence of its historically über-strict immigration policies,[37] an unprecedented demographic crisis (read: acute lack of youths with elbow grease[38]) now looms over Japan, leaving a massively increased influx of immigrants their best (and maybe only) option[39] for safeguarding the very future of their country.[40]

They [whites] are not being killed, but they're being displaced. You are the same guy who says that Europeans displaced the native Americans but apparently, when other people do it to white Americans, it's okay because fuck white people.[41]

So why when the Chinese were trying to colonize Tibet, why was that a "Save Tibet" situation but when it's white people… I'm using an analogy to try to give a parallel situation so you can see the hypocrisy.[42]

Destiny: The problem is young black men in the United States are disproportionately born to single mother households which is a leading indicator of crime. They're also disproportionately born into ghettos and low-income housing areas. They have access to worse education, okay? They're born into horrible socio-economic conditions. All of these things are massive contributors to being a criminal as you grow up. When you control for socio--

Jafari: But you are making the argument that it's white people that put them in those situations.

Destiny: Because they kind of, sort of, did over the past two hundred years. They kind of brought them over as slaves. They kind of bred them a certain way. They kind of red-lined them and gentrified them out of certain neighbourhoods and certain communities. They kind of legally discriminated on them and put them all in certain areas for a long time. They kind of disproportionately policed them and sentenced them to higher crimes in the courts and whatnot. White people have contributed a lot to this.

Fact check: False. The crime rates are not consistent across Africa and vary significantly. For instance, Numbeo's 2017 Crime Index has South Africa rated at 75.72 (the 4th highest globally) whereas Ghana is rated at 46.99 (56th globally).[44] South Africa has the most white people of any African country,[45] and white people are so rare in Ghana that many locals have never seen them in person before.[46] For comparison, Norway, a developed nation with a non-white population of 2%,[47] is rated 45.69 (61st globally). Tunisia scores even better at 40.94 (73rd globally). Any implication of racial predisposition to crime is not backed up by the data.

Destiny: So what if whites became the minority but most brown people assimilated to the culture. Would that be okay then?
Jafari: Yeah, but if they assimilated, they would enter the gene pool eventually and would just... you know...[48][49][50]

Wealthy blacks also commit more crime than poor whites, that's a fact. Yeah, look it up.[51][52][53]

There is an absolute disproportionate amount of crime committed to whites by nonwhites. There's no arguing that, that's just FBI statistics. So in that sense you could say, 'well why shouldn't the white people be able to address this?' But they're not allowed to because they're called racist by people like you.[54][55]

Ay yi yi dude you're just virtue signalling. Not all Mexicans are going to go on welfare but a lot of them are going to commit crimes. The El Salvadoreans are going to create the MS-13 gangs.[56]

What is it that's so offensive about white people saying they would like to preserve their demographic majority?[59][60]

Look, I'm actually not making the argument that whites should remain the majority in the United States. I'm simply arguing that it's clear that whites are not allowed to speak up against their demographic um… oblivion.[61][62]

In historically white countries, it is seen as a moral imperative that whites don't resist their own displacement. If they resist it, they're racist. You can see this in every white country on planet Earth.[63] ... The status quo thinks that the only logical conclusion to the country, to atone for the sins of the white past, is to keep letting in people from the third world until white people are a minority.[64]

Jafari goes on saying that all forms of discrimination are dead and gone in the Western world:

Discrimination is wrong. We've gotten rid of discrimination in our Western countries. If you don't think we've gotten rid of discrimination, you're living in a fantasy land.[65][66] […] Get outta here with that. People like me are supposed to listen to people like you chatter on about this oppression in America. It doesn't exist, dude, it doesn't exist. What do you want to do, police people's thoughts?[67][68]

Fact check: False. Jafari seems to be referring to legal discrimination, but his statement is still inaccurate. While the United States does have several anti-discrimination acts, that does not mean that the county has "gotten rid of discrimination." This logic would be the same as saying that a country has gotten rid of murder because it is against the law. Additionally, there are still many ways a person can be legally discriminated against in the US.[69][70]

Jafari made a "response video" (typical for YouTubers), called "My Statement:", in which he makes two fundamental assertions: [1] he's a bad debater and was unprepared so he misstated some of his beliefs, and [2] "the increasing tribalization of our culture" prevents "honest conversation about race".[72] While it is possible that Jafari was consistently, accidentally racist for over an hour, it's also possible that he's just bullshitting to cover his ass. You know, PR damage control. It should be noted that Jafari never apologised for any of his remarks and only retracted his comment that "we've gotten rid of discrimination."

"I didn't really understand what Gamergate was about. I think that was me still in my phase of like 'eh, this will go away.' Like, this isn't something that's gonna be, like, have staying power. Like I'll just stay out of this. I don't really care. I don't know what it is."[73]

(Note: In October 2014, JonTron made several tweets about Gamergate, including: "I don't even know what GamerGate was ever about and it needs to go away", "If you're trying to convince me this movement is about ethical games journalism at this point...you're doing a bad job" and "I just don't understand the movement and it seems largely poisonous.")[74][75]

"I know some people look at [the] alt-right as right-wing SJWs. I really don't, I just see them as the only possible reaction to SJWs."[76]

"They have been trying to silence science on those subjects because they're politically incorrect. I don't think there's any harm from studying them. But we shouldn't say you're low IQ so 'blank' or you're high IQ so 'blank'. A high IQ can go to waste. A low IQ can do amazing."[84]

"...the fact that Chicago has a higher murder rate than Afghanistan."[85]

(Note: This is not a fact. To be fair to Jafari, he is likely misremembering, misinterpreting or misstating the truth rather than lying. There were more murders in Chicago (between 2001 and September 2016) than Americans killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.[86] That being said, this is not a fair comparison. In 2012, the number of US troops in Afghanistan was approximately 90 thousand compared to Chicago's population of almost 3 million.[87] The overall homicide rates in 2015 were: Afghanistan: 33.3 per 100,000 people (not including deaths inside Taliban-controlled territory), Chicago: 18.1 per 100,000 people.[88])

"I've stopped watching a lot of mainstream outlets because I'm like I just know they're gonna lie so why bother go here?"[90]

"He was interviewing Marine Le Pen for the first time on the BBC and he's like 'I'm sorry, we know what you're about to hear is shocking and the BBC wants to apologise for anything you might hear that will disturb you. Marine Le Pen, what will you have to say?' 'Uh, France should be for French people.' 'Shocking' [laughs] Like what the fuck? They act like this is the real Nazis!"[91]

"My parents are both immigrants. One from a communist regime, the other one from a muslim occupation. I think I understand the benefits of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, I'll tell you that."[92]

"Look, it's as simple as this. If you're white, don't you dare oppose your own dispossession."[94]

"Virtue signalling is when you basically say something to make yourself look good. It comes at a very cheap cost to you to say like 'I care about all muslims' but you don't actually mean it. You're not actually gonna go do anything."[95]

"I do not believe women are oppressed in America by any degree."[96] ... "I would argue that progress has been made to the maximum degree of human biology."[97]

"There's nothing wrong with diversity."[111] / "Like you were saying about diversity, I mean like, what does it just mean less white people?"[112]

"To be honest with you, if people started going around saying like the 'white community', that'd be fucking weird too."[113] / "What is so offensive about white people saying they'd like to preserve their demographic majority?"[60]

"What I care about is facts, reason and evidence. So if you come at me and you say something that's baseless, that's what pisses me off."[114] / "Wealthy blacks also commit more crime than poor whites, that's a fact. Yeah, look it up."[51]

This whole stupid system relies on rational people being shamed into shutting up. Glad to see that slowly falling apart.[118] Wow, how scandalous, Steve King doesn't want his country invaded by people who have contempt for his culture and people! NAZI!!![119][120]

In response to Chris Maldonado's tweet that "Steve King's "baby" premise is dumb, but I do find it odd that multiculturalism is really only being championed in white majority nations",[121] Jafari wrote:

[T]hat's exactly it, it's only white nations that aren't allowed to protect their culture[.][122] [T]his rationalization makes absolutely no sense, it's like saying 2 murders makes up for 1 murder[.][123] [A]nd that's even going so far as to say colonization wasn't a net benefit for the third world (it was)[124][125]

Other tweets

"OPPRESSION TEST: Can you drive to McDonalds not in hijab and get biggest Big Mac value meal? If yes: Not oppressed" (24 January 2017)[126]

Jafari is himself half-Iranian[129] and has a muslim grandmother.[130] It's a true testament to the progress of multiculturalism that nominally nonwhite people (according to white nationalists[131] and Jafari himself[132]) can now freely defend white nationalism.

Jafari has provided a cautionary tale in how alarmingly effective alt-right propaganda has become in recent years, especially considering Jafari is someone who:

↑In other words, our reason for covering Jafari has nothing to do with butthurtedly attempting to find fault with the jokes of a popular entertainer. We have a great (and snarky!) sense of humor, don't worry. This is about... Well, just read the quotes from Jafari and judge for yourself.

Haha holy shit, I thought we would have to put up with the occasional Jorjani "t-trust me guys, modern Iranians are totally white not mongrel Arabs" article but this is ridiculous. WHITE nationalism guys, WHITE.